Changes in the Preservation and Transmission of Historical Memory in Early China
In the rites and music culture of the Zhou Dynasty,poetry,music and dance together formed a three-di-mensional space for preserving,constructing and transmitting the historical memory and cultural identity of the community.The derivation of Yayue as a concept,identifies the link between reality and history,and its spe-cific connotations reveal the linear historical framework constructed by ritual music and dance,of which,Dawu is not only a holistic and continuous expression of the early Zhou history,but also reveals the connection between ritual activities and early historical narratives.The Zhou Dynasty musicians recited the poems and linked a lineage,which served the functions of preserving the lineage of the community and constructing cul-tural identity,as well as blending ancient and modern history and filling in memory gaps.This also led to a shift from the ritualistic mode of memory dominated by musicians to the written mode by historians as the ritu-alistic system collapsed.The meaning of Shi,which was originally attached to the ritual and music system,was later absorbed by Confucius in The Spring and Autumn Annals.Understanding the relationship between rit-ual memory and written memory in early cultural development can help us to reexamine the two ways,oral and written,of knowledge transmission,in the subsequent development of scholarship,as well as the two prefer-ences of Han Dynasty's scripture interpretation:emphasis on meaning or on matter.
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